CLAS202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ancus Marcius, Aventine Hill, Capitoline Hill
14 Sep 2017
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Sabine and faliscan were similar languages of pre-roman italy 450/400bc roughly adequate for most of the 1st millennium bc rome in early latium: city on the seven hills: It the area of the tiber island the water was very shallow and you could control the crossing. The capitoline hill is considered the centre of rome and the big temples are their of zeus, hera and athena. Palatine the origin of city is the location of imperial palaces. Aventine hill the centre of palestian resistance temple of ceres, version of the goddess of grain, growth &prosperity. Hills surrounded by servian walls to the northwest of the city you find city of mars. Vatican is not a part of the seven hills, the catholic pope. Euander from arcadia settles on the palatine in the 13th century in bc( before the trojan war dated to the 12th century if it every took place)
